The Most Hardcore Creatures on Earth | Compilation

Ever wonder what the strongest, sturdiest, and most hardcore animals on Earth are? From mice that battle scorpions to microscopic moss piglets that can survive a solar storm, here are 6 of Earth’s most hardcore beings! Join Stefan Chin and check it out!
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Original Episodes and Sources:
The Baller Rat That Kicks Rattlesnakes in the Face:
• The Baller Rat That Ki...
Hardcore Mice use Scorpion Venom as a Painkiller
• Hardcore Mice use Scor...
Meet the Daring Matador Guppies of Trinidad
• Meet the Daring Matado...
The Insect Nothing Messes With: Meet the Velvet Ant
• The Insect Nothing Mes...
Bdelloids: The Most Hardcore Animals in the World?
• Bdelloids: The Most Ha...
Tardigrades: Adorable Extremophiles
• Tardigrades: Adorable ...
Thumbnail modified from: evolsyst.penso...

[@hunterblanchard6538]

Bacteria: did you die? Tardigrade: Sadly yes .... BUT I LIVED

[@AryadiSubagio]

Man, I totally don't recognize the young Hank. Somehow he looks older than the current Hank.

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

It's the facial hair.

[@UnwholesomeImp]

He reminds me of Dr. Darling from Control

[@woodneel]

@@UnwholesomeImp if only we could ask him to do the dance Darling does in the ... "It's Jessie" (?) MV ;)

[@sylorfgodoflag7625]

i know right???

[@two-face1041]

@@OtakuUnitedStudio I think he might’ve also lost a little weight in his face

[@tommylee2894]

That old Hank Green Tardigrade video had me giggling the whole time. Hank trying to figure out his narrative voice...priceless!

[@tbdwoods]

right?!?! I love it...never noticed over the years but its so clear when you look back. when I read your comment I re watched it . I felt an odd sense of pride. look how far my boy has come. this mthfkr kicked cancers ass to boot

[@robotboy719]

That caffeinated Clint Eastwood vibe just isn't right for him.

[@RAMBO14001]

I'm a university dropout, and I'm not ashamed to admit I've learned more science from this channel and others than my entire scholar life.

[@op-bv7cs]

@@bc6731 very sneaky

[@pman123]

@Sci Show Get a life.

[@pabloalvarado1080]

@Sci Show you really like attention, huh? You dont fool anyone

[@Cedrus_]

I dropped out after 1st tri senior year of high school and I most definalty have learned more from your videos and others than I ever did in school, thank you for these.

[@imgonnabefree]

I am still in high school, watching this in the middle of recess, and school teaches me a lot of things, but it's NOTHING when compared to this. Most of my answers written in my biology tests are based on what I've learnt from scishow and the links to the info they put in the description, and while they are correct, they are also very long, like, essay long, and the teacher needs to research my answer to see if it is correct, so my marks are just deducted from making my answer too long and complicated.

[@paultheaudaciousbradford6772]

Rotifers replace DNA the way I put Ikea furniture together. I always have a few extra screws or pieces that I end up adding to whatever it is. Kind of like a chair with a mutation.

[@SeanTrn]

Ya know, I don't think we as BROKE viewers say this enough. . . So (assuming any of ya read this) on behalf of all us budget ballers I wanna say THANK YOU SO MUCH to yall who do the Patreon thing, so that the kick-booty Sci-Show team is able to let us learn for free and enjoy a break from reality while doin so 🙃✌️

[@GrowingViolet]

As a regular patron on Patreon for SciShow and other such channels... you betcha. In fact, I have been meaning to increase my pledge for a while, because SciShow is a huge part of what's kept me sane over the past year (and in general). So thanks for the reminder to do so. 😉 I am really glad to be able to be a tiny part of what makes this channel a reality, and I hope they continue making such wonderful content for years to come.

[@1st1anarkissed]

Ssshhh, don't let the overlords figure it out.

[@masonp1314]

We need to put a rotifier in a room with some broken up woolly mammoth genes, and say "FIX IT FOR US"

[@eurogryphon]

*hears Jurassic Park theme in the background*

[@paulawolanski3237]

I want to see a big hairy elephant! And while they're at it, they should re-create other creatures too. Supposedly, it's very easy to clone a human, make minor adjustments to the DNA, and the result is an ancient ape-man. Now that would be a sight to behold.

[@Acidfunkish]

@@paulawolanski3237 The ETHICS around the cloning of human-like creatures should be infinitely more worrying, though. 😣 Please don't just "do" this, for fun.

[@SLYKM]

Old sci show videos have a charm to them that I really enjoy. Kinda like its the a demo version of a song recorded in a garage studio vs the newer content which is more like the the studio version mastered with professional equipment.

[@gorkskoal9315]

WoW! that's a great way to put it!

[@aaron3554]

Younger Hank looks like older Hanks' dad.

[@chromigula]

It's wild how different the tone and enthusiasm in the "young Hank" portion is. And that beard!

[@retard_activated]

Riiiiiiiight?!?!?? 💖💖💖

[@sybilknight]

It was so adorable seeing Hank in the beginning talking about Tardigrades... 💖💖💖

[@duckydarrick7460]

One of my favorite professors in college discovered a species of tardigrade that was new to science.

[@la3615]

How many species are there ?

[@duckydarrick7460]

@@la3615 like a bunch lol

[@V.Hansen.]

Bloomin rock star! 😎

[@grim6540]

Therapist: hipster hank isn't real, he can't hurt you Hipster hank:

[@duanewente457]

"Suck water off" :o

[@Ferdaev]

Timestamp?

[@jonrios1389]

I remember the water bear from the MOST EXTREME on animal planet

[@realar]

I freaking love the water bear.

[@IAmSweetPea]

I totally miss that show!!!

[@Naokarma]

too bad their extremist resistances hold no use to their natural environment.

[@LeoDahLion93]

I used to love that show

[@anwarabdullah6723]

That's what the thumbnail looks like.

[@jockseethe9300]

You clearly forgot about my 85 year old great grandfather who listens to Heavy Metal while freaking the crap out like someone in their 40's dancing inside a night club except Metallier

[@nenmaster5218]

The little Bear-Thingys are not Hardcore, they're Weird. 'Tier Zoo' said so, too!

[@claudekingstan4084]

Well if humans nuked the entire world, Rotifers can heal from the nuclear radiation and take over the world.

[@vidyasagarclassesno1]

I like it

[@minnymouse4753]

Wonder if any tardigrades landed on Jupiter's moon Europa

[@mrpunxsseazar6510]

Apparently they aren't that resilient as once thought..

[@FrigidOven]

They evolved on earth so I cant imagine them traveling to Europa by themselves.

[@hazimahmad8116]

Bearded Hank threw me off. Not like in a negative way. But yeah

[@vaszgul736]

He looks so much older even though he's so much younger, it's weird

[@5isalivegaming72]

Hands down, no contest, velvet ants (we call em Cow killers round here) are the most painful sting/bite/ attack I have ever experienced. And I've been stung, bitten, and attacked by many a critter lmao Honestly, I've stepped on nails, broken my collar bone, had my foot crushed ect. And the sting from those things, in the few minutes it does hurt, is incredibly intense. Braking a bone is a dull pain over a long period of time, getting stung by a velvet ant is an unrelenting flood of absolute agony, so much so that when it does start to subside you'll litteraly get lightheaded and feel high >.

[@la7era1u54]

I was stung on the arch of my foot by a Velvet Ant this summer. By far the worst pain I have ever felt. And the worst part is that it would seem to go away before shooting pain through my foot every few minutes. I thought I was going to pass out right after it happened

[@elfgirl5555]

Just a heads up: I have seen many scientific documents stating that tardigrades are NOT extremophiles. Sure, they can survive extreme environments, but that wasn’t their intention. As Hipster Hank said, they just chill in the water sucking up moss. An extremophile was specifically designed to survive such inhospitable environments. That is their argument, I suppose. A word that one of these papers used which I quite like is extremotolerant. Perhaps it is better suited for the water bears?

[@tsmithkc]

So we're just gonna cruise right on by Stoner Hank and "panspermia" like that didn't just happen?

[@robinhahnsopran]

I literally subscribe to this channel for the purpose of discovering new ways science and nature are hardcore.

[@bridgeb2275]

Just randomly got recommended a video from the channel. Immediately subbed and been binging it. What wonderful videos.

[@pamelapilling6996]

As a Whovian I ❤ Tardigrades in space being TARDIS. As a Muppet lover to me they are also... Pigs in SPACE!

[@donna30044]

As always: informative, entertaining, and with just the right amount of humor. ❤ You Gals & Guys!

[@nenmaster5218]

You describe 'Hbomberguy'? The KZbinr?

[@LDProductionsClass]

Imagine being the scientist (or lab assistant) injecting the kangaroo mice with formaldehyde in the control group... traumatizing

[@Heavy-metaaal]

In Brazil, we have many small dogs which are ferocious! They're tiny but they have large teeth which can scare many people. They are not tardigrades, but they are hellish.

[@Mr_G-off]

Just me or is Olivia's section on Grasshopper Mice at 3:33 much louder than the others? That transition startled me

[@argella1300]

8:35 brb, making my next D&D character a Tritan (a sea elf) monk/rogue whose eyes change color when they enter combat Also, before you ask, yes Coyote Peterson has been stung by a velvet ant

[@Hayson898]

Sorry for the late reply, but why monk/rogue and not just Monk?

[@caitlinbarron3843]

I love these compilations, but the volume levels of the clips and the transitions always seem to vary wildly. It would be nice if these could be leveled out? I will add that I have no knowledge of video editing and don't know if this is actually possible. Regardless, keep up the good work scishow team!

[@X-35173]

As a video editor I can say that it's much easier to lower volume than raise it (I mean input wise it's the same, but raising volume has more limits while anything can be reduced to mute) I agree with the volume thing, and in a video like this it shouldn't be a difficult fix.

[@Abs1]

nav1.8 have a lot of bugs i recommend you to stay on 1.7 until 1.9 comes out

[@menosproblemos6993]

Maybe this will have been fixed, but I'm going to give the that a tip anyway: Stabilizing the audio between recordings would make it WAY easier to clearly hear every person speaking (without hurting my ears by raising the volume to hear one person and quickly lower the volume because of the pain).

[@fromfin90]

Solid life tip, if facing stressful situations, take it like a guppy. Head on! Thank you scishow

[@Kiwironic]

Human: shits himself in fear from an animal Scishow: Humans have evolved a technique allowing them to defecate in the face of danger, the predator doesn't want to eat it now that it has been "spoiled" Rolling my eyes

[@vidyasagarclassesno1]

Hii

[@MazeMaker4Life]

The perfect self defense mechanism, unless the predator isnt a fussy eater 😂

[@Kiwironic]

Maybe it likes our poop, and it suddenly evolves into a "monster Inc." situation. What we do to the bees is coming back to sting us in the rear end

[@addyshorhnr3544]

My dogs like trying to eat velvet ants. I haven’t seen them do this once but 5 Separate times. They were basically playing hot potato with it. This has also been know to happen with Acadias.

[@turtle4llama]

My husband grew up next to a kangaroo rat sanctuary. He thinks his family's Jack Russell did more damage to their population that anything else.

[@RosiePosey5150]

I swear we have those kangaroo rats EVERYWHERE. When we drive to town the roads are man made not city or county made so its all dirt roads and I swear they go crazy jumping in the path

[@warpcore9681]

Panda poo diving was pretty hardcore too

[@2186kmr]

HANK!!! I'm worried about you in the tardagrade bit... I can't tell if you're angry, depressed, high, or all of the above. What ever you're feeling or have going on, I can tell it's not your normal you, and your fans love ya and we care that you are well!!!! ❤❤❤

[@MaxStax1]

Was the bearded Hank I saw, "Retro Hank" or "Current Day Hank" or even "Future Hank"?

[@paranoidrodent]

Old school beatnik Hank. ☺️

[@nathanokun8801]

The Bdelloid Rotifer story is a baseline to the mutant-monster-creating microscopic organism in the extremely good book and movie RELIC: An organism that can absorb and rebuild selected DNA and use it to modify the entire physical structure of an organism that it infects to match, for an increased ability to defend itself, with "a good offense is the best defense" being a big part of the DNA it selects. A little like the monster in the recent version of the movie THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD, but more single-purpose specialist in its function.

[@nenmaster5218]

Theres so much Fun and Education, some things are even both. So let me 'randomly' recommend: -Cinema Therapy. -Veritasium. -Krimson Rogue. -Raised by Zombies. -Cliffside.

[@rhijulbec1]

MY TARDIES!! I LOVE my Little Water Bears. I just adore them. Plus, they are severally cool and real, for true badasses.

[@Xaiff]

YAY! OLIVIA! Wish she's having a good time nowadays :D

[@delaruseh516]

Already know its going ro be good

[@52flyingbicycles]

Na V1.8 patch notes: fixed bug exploited by scorpion mains which causes neurotransmitters to overload and cause unbalanced amounts of pain

[@lyndsaybrown8471]

Ah, a Muscle Hank compilation

[@nenmaster5218]

The little Bear-Thingys are not Hardcore, they're Weird. 'Tier Zoo' said so, too!

[@gobzanuff5078]

Its not hardcore if you can respawn...

[@Bassotronics]

Another hardcore creature that was supposed to be mentioned is my old boss. She don’t give a f-ck about anybody or anything.

[@Rien--]

daily reminder: the united kingdom eats more cans of baked beans than the rest of the world combined

[@tescobeefmince2629]

mmmm beaaaansssss

[@Lord.Smith.the.first.]

True I'm having toast and beans before I go to work 😂

[@Judymontel]

I like those Bdelloid Rotifers. Patchwork is a thing in the natural world too!!

[@andrew1575]

I'm a wastewater treatment operator and rotifers are my boys

[@omgitsayaliss]

instead of "tardigrades in space", they should have called it "moss PIGLETS IN SPAAAAACE".

[@claudekingstan4084]

I know I am right when I say Bruce Lee uses Bark Scorpion’s venom as a temporary pain killer with his morning tea.

[@hotdog16000]

Gonna give a quick shout out to horseshoe crabs for being evolutionarily tough and not changing significantly for ~450 million years!! Way to not cave to peer pressure

[@soulfire5256]

Do you think you could do an episode on BCIs (Brain Computer Interfaces)?

[@squiddiot5477]

Stray genes: **exist** Rotifers: you gonna use dat bro?

[@dariapavlova8118]

Old SciShow videos are SO much better 😍 new ones are often good too, but every single old video was a masterpiece!

[@Hezmarglive]

Bdelloid Rotifers, the immortal chimera. Tardigrades, the death defyer. If you describe them fancy enough they become final bosses.

[@ZA-mb5di]

13:15 I love the animated tardigrade flying by

[@tatinightmare]

“When things get tough they shrivel up and d¡e for awhile” 😂 me too little water bear me too

[@Rahtik]

Either that thumbnail really looks like a sandwich, or I'm hungry

[@ryanc473]

Imagine being a scorpion and a goddamn mouse eats you because it has a headache lol. Even stinging it just makes it more chill and doesn't discourage it in the slightest

[@bramverbeek2]

I dunno. 8 commercials in a 23 min video seems kinda overkill.

[@angelitabecerra]

I only had one at the beginning. Weird

[@TerminusVox]

Wow, "five o'clock shadow Hank" really does have a better mustache than young(er) Hank!

[@a_e_hilton]

How would Microcosmos Hank react to past Scishow hand calling a Bdelloid "not very impressive to look at"?

[@RECTALBURRITO]

"Attacking it like a guppie, head on" i love that!

[@milkandcookies9028]

5 double commercials in a 23 minute video, that's insane scishow! But my actual question is, does scishow as a channel know what companies are advertising in their videos? Because there are some siriouslu questionable ones in between there (think in the area of obvious scams). Or does KZbin pick the advertisers?

[@angelitabecerra]

KZbin picks the advertisements. The channels only have control of which sponsors they take.

[@traditionalnative]

unfortunately KZbin entirely controls the ads that occur, from content to frequency. I will get the same scam ad on a dozen different channels. the ads are tailored by KZbin for you based off of your Google search history and how much you engage with an ad (how long you watch it). It's not uncommon for me to get ads that directly conflict with the title and content of the video because of the keywords - i.e. watching a documentary about abuse in scientology, then in the middle getting ads /for/ converting to scientology, just because the same word occurs, and the algorithm takes the biggest keyword, not context. so to make sure I'm clear about what I'm saying because I'm translating - no, no creators can even see what ads occur on their videos, as ads are targeted for each account by KZbin. people watching the same video in the same room on two different accounts will get different ads. the only thing they can control about advertising on their videos is choosing sponsors.

[@davidsalazar13]

Don’t get me wrong, I miss Olivia, too. but what happened to Muscle Hank?

[@Master_Therion]

Some animals are tough! Which is why I like to use meat tenderizer.

[@jehmarxx]

Am I the only one that thinks that tardigrades aren't cute at all but are horrifying?

[@TheTaintedWisdom]

Yes, yes you are.

[@nitsuji6705]

16:15 is why I love Hank

[@barryt2666]

I'm also a dropout after 5 years of attempts! However, regardless of the nuances of whatever I failed to understand, I also know, that in the 30 years I've been away from a secondary education through university, many of the natural and social sciences I studied have evolved, and old theories have been challenged, modified or replaced altogether! Such is the nature of the scientific beasts; but that never made me believe that the principles behind science and the scientific method was ever in doubt.

[@kraneiathedancingdryad6333]

Love the lil animated tardigrades waddling across the video...

[@jonathantodd9906]

I once woke up in the middle of the night to find a bark scorpion on my face. felt something on my face didn't know what it was, went to brush it off, turned on the light to see what it was but couldn't find it, so I thought I dreamt it, then I went into the bathroom and it was on my shirt. I got stung on one of my fingers and an arm.

[@marcelo55869]

Nah, Tardigrades are F tier... they might survive extreme temperatures, draught, pressure and space vacuum, but they lack everything else. They are beaten by every almost every other "build". Its a build that spends all skill points in resistances, and neglects power, mobility, HP, inteligence. Its solution to everything it's to hide away in hibernation until problems to go away. The "This is fine" vibe...

[@Im-Not-a-Dog]

People put too much stocknin the defenses of tardigrades. They have a glaring weakness; Physical Contact. Snails are their #1 predator, they aren't tough.

[@dannore8077]

Well,, the velvet ant was very effective against Coyote peterson

[@peteranderson3110]

Rodeffer: *exists* Hank green: 😏

[@Eneov]

Aww.. we miss you Olivia..

[@alisoncircus]

As for the uneven "wins" for the kangaroo rat vs rattler - the rat can win 80000 times, but if it loses once, it's game over. The rattler can lose every strike on kangaroo rats it makes in it's entire lifetime, and as long as it's getting something else to eat, it's just another day. So it's not really much of an advantage, 23:1. Just enough to keep on keeping on.

[@markharris1730]

Please bring back Olivia! She was an amazing presenter!

[@ashleighdavis9707]

I have definitely learned more from this channel than I did in school. Also learned a few things that have made other people ask me how the hell do I know that 😅

[@pierreabbat6157]

Kangaroo rat: A rodent named for a marsupial. Bandicoot: A marsupial named for a rodent. "Stop DNA snap" sides reversed is "pans and pots".

[@MacchiStrauss]

Wait, so Hank in the tardigrade video was actually Ethan Hawke?

[@maxwell4546]

Oh, thank you. That's so cute! Had a lovely day today with the kids. So, if we're not human, what are we?

[@Lady8D]

So not only did tardigrades survive all that radiation, etc but they also got it on while out/up there? Makes me think Space Sex shld be called Joining the Tardigrade Club (akin to Joining the Mile High Club in an airplane)

[@90klh]

Those velvet ants didn't warn me off as a child they were a common sight in the 90s in my grandma's yard. After I screamed bloody murder it hurt so bad, my grandmother unleashed chemical hell on the yard....but I wonder if that's why we had so many red wasps after that

[@tomB-A]

Hey guys. What’s with the multiple double add all of a sudden? Definitely buggers up the immersion aspect.

[@vidyasagarclassesno1]

This channel is very interesting

[@gjace26]

Hey, here's a question; okay, technically a few questions. tardigrades are microscopic, aren't they? Like ridiculously tiny, can't see it without extreme magnification. Exactly how many of them were sent to space? And was it actually space, or just the outer atmosphere? And if they were released into the vastness of open space, where presumably, this planet is ridiculously far from literally everything else that's out there ... how were (whoever sent them there) able to retrieve them, since these things are microscopic?

[@XenXenOfficial]

The ghost of Hank saying "We" at 12:17.

[@1217BC]

Did Hank really miss the "Pigs in SPACE!!!" reference? Maybe he just missed out on the Muppet Show

[@1st1anarkissed]

Tardigrades; intergalactic explorers and forest data transfer agents. Too awesome.

[@studiosandi]

Such an interesting Channel. Thank you for your hard work in educating us❤

[@dreamingwolf8382]

rotofers: get literally desiccated to smithereens.... *laughs in princess bride*

[@Akendolfr]

These animals are wild, but not as wild as the fluctuating volumne levels.

[@Articulate99]

Always interesting, thank you.

[@suspiciousllama385]

It's almost like they were designed to be little seeds for planting the beginning for life it has all of the forms of survival within suitable ranges and will evolve to fill all the planets niches and just loose all of the un-needed traits over time

[@peepostruggle1875]

The colors worked! I knew those fuzzy orange ants were dangerous. Now we just need Cicada killers to lose their wings as well.